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"Such was the strenght of the roman war engines, that they could take the head off a person in an instant and throw it many stadiums downrange. They would not leave a clean wound such as an arrow from a bow, but they would rip a person completely apart."

During the height of the Roman Empire, the roman legions had unsurpassed engineering skill compared to their contemporary counterparts. Their achievements can still be seen in forms of roads and aqueducts all over Europe and the Mediterranean.

But they are most well known for their achievements in warfare, and military engineering. In their time, no other army had the skill in siege warfare such as the Roman legions did. Most notable of their achievements are their warmachines, such as the siege ballista shown in the picture. They could throw large stone boulders(usually limestone) into distances over hundreds of meters, and do so accurately. They were indeed so complex, that they are considered one of the most complex machines created before the industrial revolution.

So, that's the brief history of behind what's in the picture... and this was again one of my practices on how to do lighting with the techinque I've chosen to use in Photoshop. This time I tried to get a sort of warmth to the tones and colours, I hope that worked.

Enjoy!

P.S.- The topic isn't really a coincidence, since I've been very fascinated with the function and technology of the ballista for a long time. So much so, that I've actually constructed two myself! A picture of the two:

The Battle of Jerusalem in 70 A.D, forty years after the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. Romans ended up sacking the city and destroying the Second Temple, thus driving most of the Jewish people into the Diaspora, which ended with the 1947 creation of the modern state of Israel, with Jerusalem again as its capital, after the leading Jews of the time pleaded with the UN to provide them with a homeland in order to prevent another massive genocide like the Holocaust.

Yes, that's basically where the current situation in that part of the world is derived from- actions of the Roman empire on the Jewish rebellion in Judea and Palestine. The region has a very long and interesting history, all in all.

Also, the Romans, and later the Byzantines, had a tendency to overlook the Arabian Peninsula as nothing more than a full of sand, camel herders, and a few trading cities of barely any import. This later bit the ruling powers in Europe in the ass hard, as a certain warlord named Muhammad inspired the Arabs to conquer the entirety of the Middle East, the Levant, North Africa, and the Iberian Peninsula, under the banner of a new Abrahamic religion, Islam.

I was wandering if you could let me us this image for an Android game called "Kingdoms of Myth", it's turn based strategy game based on a fantasy World. You can find a little bit more info in this rough website made by my colleges lifeisinfinity.eu5.org/infinit… (Sorry for the bad English). Of course you will have full credits of your work and link to your webpage if you want